Smart grid topics in the UPB electrical engineering curricula

Abstract

Smart Grids is already considered an attractive topic in the power engineering education programs. Politehnica University of Bucharest has a unique profile in the engineering higher education landscape by including among its 14 Faculties, one dedicated to Power Engineering and another one to Electrical Engineering. In this paper we focus on the smart grids topics that the students enrolled in non-power engineering programs are exposed to. We believe that these courses reflect in a high degree the smart grids philosophy, seen as a mix of communication, power transfer and information processing layers. In this paper, several courses outlines are presented as an example of developing the missing link between equipment providers and the grid stakeholders (customers, network operators and energy providers).